[Hagar (Doug)]

Hi all, I am wondering what you all think???>??

Has these wonderful awards moved into the realm of the professional/semi professional who can afford to spend a year or more's wages on the set up most of us can only dream of to stand a chance of winning an award.

How many unknown participants do you see each year placing entries? Not too many I guess.

The quality of the images is fantastic to say the least but it is near impossible for the Mr average with Mr Average gear to get a look in to anything other than the true widefield or landscape type sections which places most on somewhat of an even playing field and relies on skills in capture and processing with in most cases standard gear affordable to most of us.
Can you tell I'm bored...
What do you think????